German Prices Lowest Secure Jordan Hydroelectric Work Contract
The British Government awarded engineer Pinkas Rutenberg a $10,000,000 contract to develop the Jordan River power scheme near the Sea of Galilee. The project includes a dam, storage reservoir, irrigation canals and electric generating stations with German suppliers expected to supply machinery at about half British and American bids. Rutenberg aims to raise capital in two years and attract employment for about 1,000 workers.
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Falls of the Jordan
Sea of Galliee
Jordan River
Sea of Galilee
Pinkas Rutenberg
Rutenberg
United States
Adja
Jaffa
Tel Aviv
Ramleh
Petach Tikveh
How to Keep Dairy Herd Records
The Dominion Dairy and Cold Storage Branch endorses a monthly three day weighing and testing routine at ten day intervals, multiplying results by ten to estimate yields. For eighteen years this method has yielded splendid results. the department offers ten cents per Babcock test from composite herd samples to qualified testers who supply their own equipment.
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Dominion Dairy and
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Wet Wood Decay Myth of Moisture and Fungal Preservation
The Forest Products Laboratories of Canada challenge the idea that moist wood always decays faster. They show wood with 25 to 60 percent water content resists destructive fungi, with historical examples from Swiss lake dwellers and medieval structures. Modern pulp mills use water spraying on stacks to prevent both rolling and fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Products Laboratories of Canada
Dominion Forestry Ranch
Dangers of Fire From Everyday Items in Kent Areas
A list links fires to common objects and habits such as caps gasoline dynamite electric bulbs combs matches and curtains. Warnings include campfires gas jets coal oil lamps and cigarette stubs causing home and forest fires. Notes also mention long French Italian breads and seeds remaining dormant seven years before sprouting.
Silkworm Eyes Endure 38 Degrees Below Zero
A historical note states silkworms can endure temperatures as low as 38 degrees below zero without injury, highlighting their remarkable cold tolerance and potential implications for sericulture research.
Curvature of the Sky and Airplane Viewpoints
The article explains how the sky looks flattened from ground level and appears as a blue dome when viewed from high altitude. Professor Luckiesch notes the illusion persists near the horizon but vanishes around four miles up, revealing a hemispherical vault overhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Cathedral
Luckiesch
Prevention of Swarming in Dominion Apiary Experiments
The Lee Division of the Dominion Experimental Farms reports on methods to prevent swarming without removing the old queen. Requeening at the main honey flow, with careful timing of queen cell destruction, yielded two manipulations that reduce swarming and improve wintering by producing strong, young colonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Division
Dominion Experimental Farms
Dominion Apiarist
Penny Short in My Accounts and Nuts
A newspaper boy tells his friend he is “a penny short” in his accounts while the friend, busy eating nuts, ignores him. The speaker repeats the claim and shifts the joke to the forgotten penny as the punchline.
Grain Through Saskatchewan Elevator Company Totals
The Sas katchewan Cooperative Grain Elevator Company moved 32 133 OSS bushels from autumn 1921 to May 31 1922 and about 1 500 000 bushels as platform shipments. In 1920 21 the total was 26 195 943 bushels.
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Elevator Company
Saskatchewan Cooperative Grain Elevator Company
Structure of Sponges in the Sea
The sponge when alive in the sea shows a soft substance inside its pores, resembling the white of an egg. Currents of water move through the many small pores and exit through the larger ones. Nourishment for the sponge is extracted from the water as it passes through.
Montreal Board of Trade Plans Westward Tour
Montreal's Board of Trade undertakes an extended September journey across Canada to visit the West and Pacific Coast. An east west exchange aims to bind regions, foster understanding of local problems, and strengthen national business ties with stops from Port McNicoll to Montreal returning via Ottawa.
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Eastern
Montreal
Board of Trade
Pacific Coast
Montreal Board of Trade
CPR
Port McNicoll
Toronto
C.pr
Sault Ste. Marie
Port Arthur
C. PR
Kenora
Winnipeg
Royal Alexandra Hotel
Regina
Moose Jaw
Bassano
Calgary
Banff
Canadian Pacific
Rockies
Lake Louise
Glacier
Albert Canyon
Revelstoke
Arrowhead
Nelson
Penticton
Okanagan
Sicamous
Vancouver
C.P R
Cochrane
Ont
Halleybury
Cobalt
North Bay
Ottawa
Diseases of Raspberries Circular No 1 issued by Dominion Farms
The Division of Botany warns raspberries in the Niagara District face mosaic and leaf curl. Marlboro and Cuthbert are chiefly affected by mosaic while Cuthbert bears leaf curl most. Infected bushes should be dug up and removed, preferably in early May, with strict sanitation to prevent aphid spread and replant only disease-free stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Division of Botany
Dominion Experimental Farms
Niagara District
Cuthbert
Herbert
Taft Studies British Law Administration in England
Former President and Chief Justice Taft, now a Yale professor, travels to Great Britain to study law administration. He notes British decisions are swifter, with punishment following crime promptly, and says he can learn from the land that helped shape the U S system. He remains open to improving American jurisprudence.
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Taft
United States
Yale University
England
Great Britain
Vanecouver
Forest Fires Ravage Coast District Timber Loss
Destructive fires last month destroyed over 60.9 million feet of green timber valued at about 200000 dollars. In several weeks 30 to 40 thousand acres burned. at Grassy Bay 159 miles northwest of Vancouver five million feet of fir and cedar stood destroyed. It is the worst fire season in years for the coast district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grassy Bay
Vancouver
Goast
I Taught School in Penniesgree Mountains
A southern lecturer recalls teaching among his people after college. He recounts a boy’s stubborn refusal and a humorous exchange illustrating dialect and mispronounced phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penniesgree Mountains
Yessur
Scott Credited With Waverley Written In Weeks
Report states Sir Walter Scott wrote the novel Waverley in under six weeks, a rapid production credited to his creative method and literary success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Sea rights rally as veteran defends Navy
A retired naval officer denounces disarmament, asking what Britain would be without its navy and recalling Trafalgar. He questions the aim to remove freedom of the seas, exclaiming in anger about the sea’s purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Trafalgar
London
Forest Products Markets Extension Bureau Formed in BC
Marketing groups in British Columbia establish the Forests Products Markets Extension Bureau to coordinate systematic efforts for boosting BC timber marketing. A board of eleven trustees is named by the lumber associations to lead the initiative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Forests Products Markets Extension Bureau
Saskatchewan Farm Wealth 1921 Report Highlights Big Production
The 1921 Saskatchewan agriculture year ending April 30 1922 reports total farm product values of 444 937 773 with grain crops totaling 210 732 073 and livestock rising to 1 179 389 horses and mules 1 563 332 cattle 188 021 lambs and sheep and 432 776 hogs Immigrant arrivals show 7 335 coming to Saskatchewan from 148 477 nationally and homestead entries reach 2 729 with Canadians and dozens of nationalities filing applications and stockyard receipts indicating rising livestock participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Ser
Asia
Tavestoch
Seeves
Union
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan Agrarians
Canada
Canadian Exhibition Mission to Visit Next Month
Right Hon. Winston Churchill Secretary of State for the Colonies announces a mission will visit Canada next month to organize a proposed British Empire exhibition. The Dominion Government will grant free rail transport to seven mission members to secure Canadian participation.
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Dominion
Winston Churchill
Canada
Uses of Egg Shells and Shakespeare’s Early Works
Wash and dry egg shells and store in clean bottles for clearing soups and jellies and as a cleaning agent for glassware. Crush shells for glassware cleaning with warm soapy water, shake, rinse, and drain. Shakespeare wrote several plays before age thirty.
The Type Of Hog In Demand
Mr Ann MacMillan of the Dominion Livestock Branch says western Ontario hog producers must choose a path toward market needs. Options include continuing the extreme thick-smooth type, infusing bacon-type blood, or starting anew with bacon-type stock as U S and Canadian markets shift toward efficiency and higher finishing weights. Heavy hogs over 210 pounds reduce profit while 160 to 210 pounds suits select bacon and thick-smooth grades with finish near 200 to 210 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann MacMillan
Dominion Livestock Branch
Ontario
United States
England
Mace Millan
Fumigation of Steamships Explored for Safer Disinfectant
Governments push regular fumigation of passenger quarters on ships but prussic acid risks fatal accidents and lacks safe respirators. Burning sulphur damages decorations, prompting the British Ministry of Health to seek a gas that disinfects efficiently without harmful effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministry of Health
Passenger Sleeps Through Severe Storm On Berlin Flight
Mrs. Philip F. Bernstein, wife of a New York physician, slept through a violent thunderstorm while flying from Berlin to Bremen. The pilot rose above the storm and landed safely in Bremen after weathering strong winds at high altitude.
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Berlin
Bremen
Philip F. Bernstein
New York
Statue of Captain Scott in Christchurch Lights Night Face
A statue in Christchurch New Zealand faces the South Pole and is illuminated at night by hotel lead lights across the street. The striking sculpture, crafted by Captain Scott's wife, is described as beautiful and most vivid in darkness.
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Christchurch
New Zealand
Captain Scott
South Pole
Sensitive Body Parts Ranked by Touch Sensitivity
A note on tactile sensitivity places the tongue tip as the most sensitive area of the human body, followed by the lips and the fingertips.
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Germany
Jordan
Kent
France
Italy
W. Mw OU. Mes
Pease
Quebec Province
Quebec City
W. Bires
Mr. Taft
B.C
B.C. Lumber
Shakespeare
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